#24BooksIn24Days #Dec15 Carl de Souza's Kaya Days (transl. by Jeffrey Zuckerman) had been on my reading pile for a while and I finally read it. This Mauritian book follows a girl for a night looking for her brother amidst the uproar after a musician had died in police custody.

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec14 Miss Major Speaks, which consists of conversations between Miss Major (a Black trans revolutionary as the subtitle says) and Toshio Meronek, is another great book Verso published this year. We really need all the books by trans elders we can get.

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec13 Did continue my way through Jasmine Walls' work and read the first book of DC's Vixen: NYC. I am not a huge DC reader but this was very entertaining (and loved the art). Will pick up more of this series.

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec12 Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec11 Monique ("Lesbians are not women.") Wittig's essays (newly published in German translation by Benjamin Dittmann-Bieber and Arabel Summent) written in the 1980s/90s are deeply thought provoking. Yes, there are things I'd criticise but there is a lot to gain here.

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec9 Spent today with some queer poetry by Padraig Regan ("Some Integrity"). "[...] the future is as futures often are just history we haven't memorised & I cannot say if you survived it." (from "Poem for Bobby Kendall")

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec8 This year in July Marga Minco died at 103. Her debut Het bittere kruid ("Bitter herbs") from 1957 tells about the occupation of the Netherlands in episodes about a Jewish family. The protagonist is the only one who survives in hiding. The story is very close to Minco's own.

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec7 I recently read Jasmine Walls latest graphic novel, Brooms, which I loved so I looked for more of her work. The Last Session is a wonderful comic about a group of queer friends trying to finish a last D&D campaign before after college graduation they won't live close anymore.

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec6 Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark is an incredible memoir in letters. In conversation with texts/ thoughts/ art by many other trans people (in particular woman and femmes), McKenzie writes about grief, late(r) transition, political struggles, philosophy. A joy.

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec5 Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross might be the first full book I have read on the Paris Commune and while it was really interesting it was also pretty dense and I think, I should have read a different introduction first.